It's believed around 4000 pre-poll votes were cast in Griffith alone, and nationally over four million.

There's doubt Australian Electoral Commission staff will be able to count all the ballots before the end of the night, however, they have started the process of adding the figures up.

We'll have the latest on the numbers as they come in.

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